 | The Simpsons Homer for the Holidays (Simpsons Comic Compilations)
Release Date: October 26, 2010| Series: Simpsons Comic Compilations’Tis the season for a holly jolly jubilee of winter wonderment from Matt Groening, the naughty but nice creator of “The Simpsons.” Join in the frosty fun and prepare to be wassailed with letters to Santa, hot cider, Christmas angels, Hanukkah gifts, New Year’s resolutions, one-eyed snowmen, snowboarder lingo, red-nosed rein-dogs, ill-conceived Christmas specials, and half-baked holiday hibernation diets. Glad tidings of great joy, it’s . . . The Simpsons Ho...
 |  | Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
Publication Date: July 11, 2001| Series: Yale Series of Younger Poets (Book 95) This year's winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Maurice Manning's Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions. These compelling poems take us on a wild ride through the life of a man-child in the rural South. Presenting a cast of allegorical, yet very real, characters, the poems have "authority, daring, and a language of colour and sure movement", says series judge W.S. Merwin. Maurice Manning is a native of Danville, Kentucky. He holds degrees from Earlham College, the University of Kentucky, and the ...
|  | The Little Stranger
Release Date: April 30, 2009A chilling and vividly rendered ghost story set in postwar Britain, by the bestselling and award-winning author of The Night Watch and Fingersmith. Sarah Waters's trilogy of Victorian novels Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, and Fingersmith earned her legions of fans around the world, a number of awards, and a reputation as one of today's most gifted historical novelists. With her most recent book, The Night Watch, Waters turned to the 1940s and delivered a tender and intricate novel of relationships that brought her the greatest success she has achieved so far. With ...
|  | Out of Time: A Novel
Publication Date: February 18, 1999A handsomely repackaged version of an award-winning debut novel that won the 1990 Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Fiction and was a Finalist for the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award. ...
|  | Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
Release Date: March 30, 2010Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies, but no book-length portrait has appeared before now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces Heaney’s steps from his first exploratory testing of the ground as an infant to what he called his “moon-walk” to the podium to receive the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It also fascinatingly charts his post-Nobel life and is supplemented with a number of photographs, many from the Heaney family album and p...
|  | The Tragedy of Political Theory
Publication Date: April 26, 1990| ISBN-10: 069102314X | ISBN-13: 978-0691023144In this book J. Peter Euben argues that Greek tragedy was the context for classical political theory and that such theory read in terms of tragedy provides a ground for contemporary theorizing alert to the concerns of post-modernism, such as normalization, the dominance of humanism, and the status of theory. Euben shows how ancient Greek theater offered a place and occasion for reflection on the democratic culture it helped constitute, in part by confronting the audience with the otherwise unacknowledged princ...
|  | Report from Ground Zero
Release Date: February 25, 2003The tragic events of September 11, 2001, forever altered the American landscape, both figuratively and literally. Immediately after the jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center, Dennis Smith, a former firefighter, reported to Manhattan’s Ladder Co. 16 to volunteer in the rescue efforts. In the weeks that followed, Smith was present on the front lines, attending to the wounded, sifting through the wreckage, and mourning with New York’s devastated fire and police departments. This is Smith’s vivid account of the rescue efforts by th...
|  | Courage My Love
Publication Date: February 1, 2003An emotional read that will captivate your heart.Stella Cameron's:RisksWhen Jennie Andrew's husband died, she blamed their best friend, Peter Kynaston. She distanced herself from him and all the painful memories. Now Peter hoped to turn back the clock, to reestablish the old, comfortable friendship. But Jennie had always been intrigued by Peter . . . and in her heart she wanted so much more.Fay Robinson's:A Man Like MacAs Keely Wilson discovered, you don't often meet a guy like Mac McCandless. This man was special. He'd overcome adversity and met challenges ...
|  | Rubicon: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Novels of Ancient Rome)
Release Date: May 25, 2010| Series: Novels of Ancient Rome As Caesar marches on Rome and panic erupts in the city, Gordianus the Finder discovers, in his own home, the body of Pompey's favorite cousin. Before fleeing the city, Pompey exacts a terrible bargain from the finder of secrets-to unearth the killer, or sacrifice his own son-in-law to service in Pompey's legions, and certain death. Amid the city's sordid underbelly, Gordianus learns that the murdered man was a dangerous spy. Now, as he follows a trail of intrigue, betrayal, and ferocious battles on land and sea, the Finder is caught ...
|  | Three Little Ghosties
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|  | Scuffy the Tugboat and His Adventures Down the River
Release Date: January 31, 2001| Age Level: 2 and up...
|  | It's Bedtime, Dear Dragon (Beginning-To-Read - Dear Dragon)
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|  | The Pot of Wisdom: Ananse stories
Publication Date: February 1, 2008| Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up Drawing on the rich vein of traditional African stories featuring the spider Ananse, Ghanaian author Adwoa Badoe and Malian illustrator Baba Wagué Diakité bring young readers a marvelously witty and entertaining collection of ten tales about this legendary spider swindler. The tales deal with important issues that everyone faces — justice, money, marriage, vanity, self-respect, and more — but couch the heavy lessons in lively folktales. Ananse sometimes succeeds; other times he makes a fool of...
|  | The Story of the Tampa Bay Rays (Baseball: The Great American Game)
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|  | Soccer Stars (World Cup Soccer)
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|  | Fairy Tale Dinners: A Cookbook for Young Readers & Eaters (Fairy Tale Cookbooks)
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| | Greek and Roman Sport (World History (Lucent))
Publication Date: September 1998| Age Level: 10 and up...
| | Wild Rock: Climbing and Mountaineering (Adventure Outdoors (Smart Apple Media))
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|  | Dust for Dinner (I Can Read Level 3)
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|  | A Treasury of Jewish Bedtime Stories
Publication Date: October 8, 1996| Age Level: 4 and up | Grade Level: P and up These twenty-one stories cover the gamut from gentle humorto profound faith to warm kindness. The heroes range from kings and sagesto wise travelers and fantasizing laborers. This is one of those rarebooks that youngsters will curl up with again and again. Illustrated byLiat Benyamini Ariel....
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